Movie Reviews

"Gray shoals of data"

mark ultra | in a cold place, Canada | 01/26/2007

(5 out of 5 stars)

"For readers familiar with the writings of William Gibson, Fateless should find a sympathetic resonance. Ambarchi'smetered pulse and drone are an ideal growth medium from which the seeds of Tina Frank's visuals morph into abstractforms, much as Gibson's cyberspace might have appeared, wereit the case that such a thing could be adapted for the screen. Possibly oscilloscope video mapped onto a deformable mesh, the effect is stunning and unsettling.

The second half is quite indescribable, though if I wereto tender an adjective, perhaps its not unlike an ancient nanontechnological CAM cell, inducing autocatalytic reactions among proteins suspended in a monomer lattice.

Beyond aficionados of Ambarchi's sound sculpting, chemists,sci-fi writers, motion graphics designers and computer animators should find the aesthetic to be compelling, albeitbereft of any supporting narrative that might have the effect of connecting the content to the materio-semiotic medium of the screen in which it occurs. More likely, Fateless is like anyesoteric form. You either get it or you don't.